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SPECTRA wins Festival of the Year Award

Congratulations to all the teams responsible (City Promotion & Events; Culture, Partnership & Policy), and all colleagues, volunteers and partners who made SPECTRA 2017 – Aberdeen’s festival of light – such a success. The festival has now won Large Event of the Year and Team of the Year at The Drum Scottish Event Awards 2017.

SPECTRA is a relatively young festival, but had around 65,000 visitors in 2017 and was up against some long-established events. Well done and we’re all looking forward to SPECTRA 2018.